(June 26, 2015 at 8:32 am)Cato Wrote:(June 26, 2015 at 8:24 am)SteveII Wrote: There is a doctrine of God's foreknowledge which I find philosophically appealing: God (with an infinitely powerful mind), surveyed all possible worlds in which he created beings with freewill, and with knowledge of what every being would freely choose to do in any given circumstance, actualized the world with the greatest eternal good. This includes his interactions, his commands, his answers/no answers to prayers, and of course an eventual plan of redemption.
What was Carlin's line? "If this is the work of a supreme being I am not impressed. This looks like the resume of an office temp with a bad attitude".
More accurately, it is the work of people with freewill. You have to admit that if God exists, this is way more complicated than most of the one-liners you get on this forum.
